Tech N9ne: He had style, he wasnt just rapping [and] he flipped it often. He really had flow and he really had style; I love style. I love n****s that can get on there and style and show you that they can flip it; but, still rap. L was hard. I heard a lot of his freestyles. I heard him through Grant Rice [a Kansas City, MO MC]. What he played me made me say, Gaddam, I wish I had got a song with this n****! You know what Im saying, there arent too many motherf*****s that can make me say that. This n**** had flow. I heard a lot of his freestyles on some mixtapes that were coming out of New York. I was like, gaddam! Not too many motherfuckers can do that.

Eminem

Tech N9ne: His wordplay cant be matched. If you listen to him; its sick! Its ill, it has cancer [and] it has AIDS; thats how sick it is!

Tech N9ne: D.O.C. was f***ing dope! D.O.C. was the final nail in the coffin that [made me say] okay Im going to rap. There was always Public Enemy and NWA and BDP [Boogie Down Productions] and Rakim and all of them; but [after listening to] D.O.C. I said, Yes, I got to do me some mother***ing music! Hes a lyricist. He even wrote for Snoop, on his album [Doggystyle]; because, he [D.O.C.]

didnt have his voice anymore. Go get his first album No One Can

Do It Better. So, D.O.C.s my fourth.

Brotha Lynch Hung

Tech N9ne: My last one gotta be Brotha Lynch. Swear to God, if you listen to Dinner

And A Movie first release on Strange Music youll see why. That boys a gaddam lyricist! I dont give a f**k how many people hes eaten, how many abdomens hes torn out, how many hostages hes taken, the boy cannot be f***ed with, lyrically. He does it like no other.